Clowns in America.

All of the Tech Giants you mention were started by DARPA, well funded by tax payer funds and likely still run by Clown assets. I suspect the foreign ones as well.

How could EOS raise so much from a simple ICO, openly hold events in the US but claim they aren't targeting American investors, and still keep going with no consequences from the SEC ?

The same way Microsoft, Facebook, and Google escape prosecution for obvious violations of US Law. They are the Law.

What we are seeing here is the building of the New, Centralized World Wide Web. They call it a Web for a reason. Those of us old enough to remember Eternal September know full well what it is, it was not a secrete back then.

The social credit system has to be disguised in the West to be accepted, what better way than to ride on the coat tails of the crypto hysteria created by the one assets designed to break free of this Web.

Then again, we don''t know of created it but we do know who created sha256, so we're likely all screwed either way :)

God Speed.